Every product from IT Cosmetics starts with skin-loving ingredients. From the famous {Confidence in a Cream} moisturiser – which is formulated with a rich blend of anti-ageing concentrate, niacinamide and hyaluronic acid – to the entire IT Cosmetics Your Skin But Better range, each product starts with dermatologist-developed active ingredients to better your skin with every wear. Both skin care and make up. Topical application of ceramides can help to replenish ceramide levels, thus restoring the skin’s natural barrier. While collagen is necessary for maintaining youthful-looking skin, the collagen protein is too large to absorb into the skin topically. That’s why applying skin care products that contain collagen won’t provide the anti-aging benefits you’re looking for. I noticed IT Cosmetics Confidence In A Cream includes several skin-soothing botanical extracts like purslane, aloe, green tea, licorice, and turmeric, just to name a few.

RR shows promise for treating acne. In an 8 week, double-blindclinical study, 0.05% retinyl retinoate "showed a significant decrease in both inflammatory and non-inflammatory lesions, and in sebum amount". It even had some activity against P.acnes that makes it a promising ingredient for acne prone skin, especially when combined with other actives. With thiscontext in mind let's see what THDA might be able to do. First, it is stable (if pH < 5), easy to formulate, and a joy to work with for a cosmetic chemist. These ingredients enhance the texture of the product and also provide a few benefits to the skin. Both ingredients help the skin retain moisture, and silicones can even disguise the appearance of lines and wrinkles while also minimizing the appearance of pores. Ceramides are a family of waxy lipid molecules that are naturally produced by the skin and are vital in supporting the stratum corneum. There’s some people that love having an extensive skincare regimen with a product for every need and concern, and then there’s others who like to keep it simple. I fall into the latter category; less is more IMO. That’s why I love reviewing skincare products that offer multiple benefits, such as It Cosmetics Confidence In A Cream.Another pro is that lavender oil has some nice antimicrobial and antibacterial properties. It also has some localpain relieving and muscle relaxing magical powers. Lavender oil is also often claimed to have anti-inflammatory properties. We have found a study confirming this but it was the essential oil of the leaves and not the much more commonly used flowers and the two differ in their main chemical compounds very much. (The main components of the flower essential oil are linalyl acetate and linalool [around 80% the two together] while it is 1,8-Cineole [around 65%] in the essential oil of the leaves.)

Unfortunately, there’s a few fragrant essential oils — like lavender, bergamot, and orange peel oil — in this formula that will likely counteract the benefits of these skin-soothing ingredients. The final key ingredient that we’d like to highlight in IT Cosmetics Confidence In A Cream is sodium hyaluronate, the sodium salt form of hyaluronic acid. EnterRetinyl Retinoate, a molecule that is created by attaching retinolto retinoic acid. The attachment makes the molecule more stable (pure retinol is unstable and hard to formulate) as well as more active. If you read our shiny description about retinolyou will know that it is not active and has to be converted by our metabolic machinery to become retinoic acid, the biologically active molecule. The conversion is not very effective and takes two steps. Retinyl Retinoate also has to be converted, but in the first step, our cells break up the molecule to become retinoic acid (the active) and retinol, meaning that it becomes active both after the first conversion step as well as later on once retinol is further converted.I’ll dive deep into the key ingredients in this formula, as well as the research that supports (or doesn’t support) their use in skin care.

So does IT Cosmetics Confidence In a Cream really offer all of these benefits? That’s exactly what I’ll cover in this review. Before I get into the details, here’s the TL;DR if you just want to know whether or not IT Cosmetics Confidence In A Cream is right for you. Touch: our fermented sugar is not only good to the skin, but it also feels great on the skin. It gives a nice “soft touch” feeling and makes the products pleasant to use. The result is skin that can easily become dry, itchy, or irritated. A properly functioning stratum corneum is essential for healthy skin as it maintains epidermal hydration and serves as a barrier that responds to environmental stressors, infections, irritants, and allergens. A similar 1-star review says, “It felt like it never really soaked in no matter how little I used. Left my skin very oily and caused breakouts.” Our VerdictHydroxyethylpiperazine Ethane Sulfonic Acid, Glyceryl Stearate, Dimethicone, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter / Shea Butter, Myristyl Myristate, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Phenoxyethanol, Peg-100 Stearate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Caprylyl Glycol, Pentylene Glycol, Sodium Polyacrylate, Tocopherol, Hydrolyzed Rice Protein, Citric Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate, Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate, Ceramide Np, Adenosine, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Colloidal Oatmeal, Linalool, Hydroxypalmitoyl Sphinganine, Butylene Glycol, Caramel, Limonene, Benzyl Benzoate, Carbomer, Sodium Lactate, Citral, Polysorbate 20, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Parfum / Fragrance. N285722/2. As for hair care, coconut oil has pretty solid research showing that it can penetrate into the hair very well (better than mineral oil and sunflower oil) and it can prevent hair protein loss as well as combing damage. If you have problems with damaged hair, split ends, coconut oil is worth trying as a pre- or/and post-wash treatment. Labmuffin has an awesome blogpost explaining in more detail why coconut oil is good for your hair.

Matrikines are peptides that regulate cell activities through cell signaling. The two matrikines in Matrixyl 3000 work synergistcally to restore and maintain the skin’s youthful appearance by signaling to cells to produce more collagen. For instance, there’s a decent amount of silicones like cyclopentasiloxane and dimethicone, as well as emollients like ethylhexyl isononanoate and hydrogenated polyisobutene.There is also an often cited Japanese study that made patch tests with lavender oil for 9 years and found a huge increase in lavender oil sensitivity in 1997 (from 1.1% in 1990 to 8.7% in 1997 and 13.9% in 1998). This was the year when using dried lavender flowers in pillows, wardrobes, and elsewhere became fashionable in Japan, so it seems that increased exposure to lavenderresults in increased risk of sensitivity. As you age, your body’s production of collagen and elastin slows down. These two proteins are responsible for your skin’s structural support. As a result, the skin loses its natural plumpness and smoothness.